The red pill on this issue came when I was reading studies on the health of the Amish - they have nearly non-existent SIDS and extremely low rates of cancer. The leaders often tell "doctors" wishing to compel some vaccination or health campaign on the Amish that their community is in better shape than the English (non-Amish).
Its also because they aren't handling chemicals and fertilizers etc. Every day people come into contact with chemicals like detergents or aerosolized particles from the construction site next door to their office that an Amish person doesn't come in contact with at all.
Some of the newer fertilizers have shit in them that I wouldn't give to my worst enemy. Worse, with some of this crap that big corporations use in industrial farming we don't actually even know what's in it.
My grandfather died of prostate cancer. He farmed for most of his 80 years of life. Why is it that almost no one else in the whole family(20-30 people) has died of cancer but the one person with the most exposure did? Hmmmm...
Umm my Amish neighbors are very careless with very toxic chemicals and about 60-70% of the Amish in my community do all the scheduled jabs. They did for the most part reject the cv jabs. We have a pretty high rate of cancer and I'd venture abnormally high rate of ALS in my area.
I'm obviously not an Amish expert but its pretty clear that they aren't using Monsanto seed and hard core industrial fertilizers like a corn farmer in Nebraska might use. No matter which way you look at it their exposure is less than the average American. Hell, just the lack of constant car exhaust probibly improves their health overall.
The red pill on this issue came when I was reading studies on the health of the Amish - they have nearly non-existent SIDS and extremely low rates of cancer. The leaders often tell "doctors" wishing to compel some vaccination or health campaign on the Amish that their community is in better shape than the English (non-Amish).
Its also because they aren't handling chemicals and fertilizers etc. Every day people come into contact with chemicals like detergents or aerosolized particles from the construction site next door to their office that an Amish person doesn't come in contact with at all.
Natural fertilizers aren’t the issue, synthetic pesticides are.
Some of the newer fertilizers have shit in them that I wouldn't give to my worst enemy. Worse, with some of this crap that big corporations use in industrial farming we don't actually even know what's in it.
My grandfather died of prostate cancer. He farmed for most of his 80 years of life. Why is it that almost no one else in the whole family(20-30 people) has died of cancer but the one person with the most exposure did? Hmmmm...
YES to all of the comments above!!
Umm my Amish neighbors are very careless with very toxic chemicals and about 60-70% of the Amish in my community do all the scheduled jabs. They did for the most part reject the cv jabs. We have a pretty high rate of cancer and I'd venture abnormally high rate of ALS in my area.
I'm obviously not an Amish expert but its pretty clear that they aren't using Monsanto seed and hard core industrial fertilizers like a corn farmer in Nebraska might use. No matter which way you look at it their exposure is less than the average American. Hell, just the lack of constant car exhaust probibly improves their health overall.